GRAND COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — Grand County Sheriff's Search and Rescue announced today that they completed two complex canyoneering rescues within 48 hours last weekend.

Grand County Search and Rescue made the announcement on social media, sharing that the rescues happened on Friday, October 17, and Sunday, October 19, both in the late afternoon/early evening.

The first rescue took place on the Rim Shot canyoneering route downriver from Moab when a person was stranded about 150 feet in the air. The second rescue was on the Boy and Arrow canyoneering route off Highway 279, where two people needed to be rescued after one got their hair stuck in a rappel device.

On Friday, right before sunset, the man was stranded on a rope about 150 feet above the base of the third and largest rappel on the

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